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Am not missing anything, am well aware of when terms moved from lingua franca for insiders that work in the industry, to common vernacular for the general publi
by OrvalWintermute 5y ago
Am not missing anything, am well aware of when terms moved from lingua franca for insiders that work in the industry, to common vernacular for the general public. Those are two completely different things.
Of course, Watts is talking as an insider. He is not Everyman Joe listening to broadcast news. He has been exposed to all the terms.
The public branding has changed, and also, so has it too for the industry that is the key data producers. The producers of the data have moved terms also. And, I think that is interesting.
Just because you say something is a myth, and a partisan fact checker say it is, does not make it so.
If something gets posted to Quora, or another question site, it is likely that something is an open question. I am not the only one to ask this.
Good science is about asking questions, hypotheses, predictions, falsification, data gathering, theory development, observations, and iteration repeatedly. Data crunching comes in particularly handy for this. Data is not inherently partisan, nor is asking tough questions. That is science as a process.
I noticed you are not responding to any of the comments I have made regarding the actual observing systems (HCN, ASOS, etc). So, to bring up things likes discrepancies between things like HCN data and remote observing system data would be overkill.
I think you want to have a political/ideological debate and I am not on HN to do that.
- kazoomonger 5y agoI'm not responding to anything other than the rebranding myth, because that's what I originally responded about. Going beyond that scope would involve walls of text that HN is ill-suited for, as evidenced by the amount of text already written for a narrowly-scoped topic. I'm here because I saw a comment repeating a falsehood, and wanted to call it out. I dislike seeing blatantly wrong things such as this: https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/global_warming_words.jpg https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoPlease, take your manichean battles around political extremes elsewhere. HN is not the place for ideologies.
- kazoomonger 5y ago> "I'm not being political, you're being political!" Your original comment had factually incorrect information, as demonstrated. Please don't try and hide that behind name calling or distractions.
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoThe original commment I made was: > Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming. > Why was there a name change, a rebranding if you will? In some cases, there is conflation, but they mean very different things. > When it comes to Climate, scientists say that climate is in 30 year intervals. Day to day that is just weather. So, stay on topic.
- kazoomonger 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean? This is the entire and only topic that I have talked about, straight from your original comment: > Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming. > Why was there a name change, a rebranding if you will? That quote contains factually incorrect information, as discussed above.